ok, so i stole this picture from a bog....montmartre in winter......reminds me of this time last year....i was in montmartre for dinner during the first week of january.......not the best dinner i have had in paris....memorable because others had food i wish i had ordered...and my own choices were disappointing....the mussels i recall were overcooked and the frites were hard......but it was paris.....and i had many fabulous lunches on that trip...so all was well from the big-picture perspective......and we took the bus back to the hotel, right past the eiffel tower decked out in lights with a huge 2004 across the midsection......